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What was Ye's first album to be nominated for Album Of The Year at The Grammys? Which album did Rolling Stone say was his most vulnerable?  Which album did Lou Reed say Ye was trying to raise the bar with? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through Ye's back catalogue album by album.


Featured songs:

Down To Earth
I’ll Fly Away
Jesus Walks
Hey Mama
Good Morning
Say You Will
Dark Fantasy
Made In America
Hold My Liquor
Black Skinhead
Fade
Yikes
Feel The Love
Water
Eazy
I Am A God

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Which album did Rolling Stone say was "the work of a transformed woman"? Which album came out after I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got? Which song does Sinead rap on? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through Sinead O'Connor's back catalogue album by album.

Featured songs:

Take My Hand
Heroine
Just Like You Said It Would Be
Three Babies
Black Boys On Mopeds
Why Don’t You Do Right
John I Love You
Famine
This Is To Mother You
Daddy I'm Fine
Molly Malone
Downpressor Man
33
We People Who Are Darker Than Blue
Reason With Me
Queen Of Denmark
Your Green Jacket
James Brown
Trouble Of The World
No Man’s Woman

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What was the original name of the band? Who influenced Thom Yorke's lyrics on Kid A?  What album does Nigel Godrich regard as his least favourite? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through Radiohead's back catalogue album by album, plus their various side projects.

Featured songs:

Anyone Can Play Guitar
Bones
Exit Music
Everything In Its Right Place
You And Whose Army?
A Punchup At A Wedding
Analyse
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
The Ties That Bind Us
Codex
No Other Love
Nose Grows Some
Waiting For A Sign
Identikit
Suspirium
Impossible Knots
Cloak Of The Night
25 Years
We Don’t Know What Tomorrow Brings
There’ll Be Better Days
Subterranean Homesick Alien

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What song of McCartney's contains just three lines? Who co-produced Ram? Who was the other guy in The Fireman? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through Paul McCartney's back catalogue album by album.

Featured songs:

PS I Love You
Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
That Would Be Something
Smile Away
Wild Life
Single Pigeon
Mrs Vandebilt
Letting Go
London Town
On The Way
What’s That You’re Doing?
Spies Like Us
Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest
 Really Love You
Tiny Bubble
English Tea
Alligator
I Don’t Know
Slidin’
Momma Miss America

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What album did The Daily Review describe as "anger, depression, repression and piss-taking you can dance to"? Why did Johnny Marr quit? Why was Morrissey's California Son so controversial? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through The Smiths' back catalogue album by album, plus Morrissey's and Johnny Marr's.

Featured songs:

Hand In Glove
I Don’t Owe You Anything
Well I Wonder
Vicar In A Tutu
I Won’t Share You
Dial A Cliche
You’re The One For Me, Fatty
Speedway
Do Your Best And Don’t Worry
The Last Ride
America Is Not The World
It’s Not Your Birthday Anymore
Generate! Generate!
Smiler With Knife
Candidate
New Dominions
Lenny’s Tune
Lightning People
The Boy With The Thorn In His Side

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Which early Bad Seeds album did one respected music critic describe as “one of the greatest rock albums ever made”? Which is the first album to feature Warren Ellis? Which was the last album to feature Mick Harvey?  Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through Nick Cave's back catalogue album by album.

Featured songs:

Fears Of Gun
A Box For Black Paul
Blind Lemon Jefferson
Running Scared
The Carny
Papa Won’t Leave You, Henry
Nobody’s Baby Now
Henry Lee
The Garden Duet
Lime Tree Arbour
Darker With The Day
Rock Of Gibraltar
Breathless
There She Goes My Beautiful World
Song For Jesse
No Pussy Blues
Jesus Of The Moon
Wide Lovely Eyes
Distant Sky
Bright Horses
Hand Of God
Midnight Man

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Who did Bowie write Kooks for? What were some of the songs on Diamond Dogs originally written for? What song sounds very similar to Let's Dance? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through David Bowie's back catalogue album by album [well, most of them].

Featured songs:

Rubber Band
God Knows I’m Good
The Width Of A Circle
Kooks
Hang On To Yourself
Time
1984
Right
Word On A Wing
Joe The Lion
Up The Hill Backwards
Shake It
Tonight
I Can’t Read
I Feel Free
Looking For Satellites
Survive
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Dirty Boys
Tis A Pity She Was A Whore
Ashes To Ashes

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What record did the LA Times say was a "near-perfect album that artists often spend a whole career trying to produce"? What Is Mona Lisa's & Mad Hatters about? How long did it take John to write the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road double album? What song is about John's cocaine addiction? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through Elton John's back catalogue album by album [well, almost].

Featured songs:

Empty Sky
 Sixty Years On
 My Father’s Gun
 Mona Lisas & Mad Hatters
 Elderberry Wine
 Sweet Painted Lady
 Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy
 Big Dipper
 White Lady White Powder
 Elton’s Song
 One More Arrow
 Breaking Hearts
 Mona Lisa’s & Mad Hatters Part 2
 I Never Knew Her Name
 Understanding Women
 American Triangle
 Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
 Oscar Wilde Gets Out
 England & America
 Rocket Man

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What album did Pitchfork say sounded like "a computer breathing"? What name did Prince want to use for Sign O The Times? What album has no vocals on it? Find out the answers to these questions and more as  Stevie Nix goes through Prince's back catalogue album by album [well, almost].

Featured songs:

For You
In Love
I Feel For You
Head
Jack U Off
DMSR
Darling Nikki
America
The Cross
Jughead
And God Created Woman
Pheremone
Papa
Let’s Have A Baby
The Work Pt 1
Avalanche
Illusion, Coma, Pimp & Circumstance
Sexmesexmenot
The Word
Wow
Stare
Cream

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What song is a cousin to Masters Of War? Why is I Threw It All Away different to all of Dylan's other songs? On what album does Dylan credit only one song with having a producer? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Stevie Nix goes through Bob Dylan's back catalogue album by album [well, almost].

Featured songs:

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Masters Of War
Boots Of Spanish Leather
Only A Pawn In Their Game
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Visions Of Johanna
I Threw It All Away
Went To See the Gypsy
You’re A Big Girl Now
When You Gonna Wake Up
Man In The Long Black Coat
Love Sick
Braggin’
My Own Version Of You
It’s Alright Ma [I'm Only Bleeding]

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